tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-181019052024-03-06T23:40:43.824-05:00EVERYTHING ROSYQUILTS, DOLLS, FOOD....Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-1698499438926393092011-12-07T18:06:00.000-05:002011-12-07T18:06:15.633-05:00Christmas Wreath<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMmkTx4xbWBEaKJ52XJ-1a_PBsHGzQDYmzRst2cLTFxKA_Bzf8j7jvyOOoOWq6LsHwNxeywSBJ641oudMZZNzxCdfq7BVprombjfIqMzmWo18Us6yU24qWi2m62RcWHsl6z1175g/s1600/wreath+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMmkTx4xbWBEaKJ52XJ-1a_PBsHGzQDYmzRst2cLTFxKA_Bzf8j7jvyOOoOWq6LsHwNxeywSBJ641oudMZZNzxCdfq7BVprombjfIqMzmWo18Us6yU24qWi2m62RcWHsl6z1175g/s320/wreath+3.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
I have been dying to do this wreath from two years ago. I have finally done it. I love it. It may be too big for my door but I don't care lol.....<br />
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Don't forget to check the doll blog. I will be posting an ornament doll there in a few....Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-88870221356407488192011-11-07T13:37:00.000-05:002011-11-07T13:37:49.631-05:00Time to PaintMy quilt and doll room is over flowing with rolled up quilts on large cardboard rolls. So, what does one do when that happens? One switches to another craft lol.<br />
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My mode has switched to painting, even though I have two more dolls to finish. I will do those in between. I have been painting a few little things to get me going and purchased a few patterns from JoSonja Jansen. Her patterns are so professional with lots of color pictures, and a delight to just look at. Just go look at her website, click on shop and each icon you see there is a selection of patterns. <a href="http://josonja.com/">Here</a><br />
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I have already got the two Whale cribbage board patterns and will order the boards to go with those patterns today. One is for hubby and one is for son, both fishermen lol, the younger being a surfer also. <br />
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I love JoSonja's whimsey. Her Thumbelina pattern is so wonderful as is the Owl and the Pussycat, The Pirates and etc etc etc...you have to go look to appreciate all the wonderful paintings. <br />
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Today, I will show you a very large ornament.<br />
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It is plastic. I thought I would put JoSonja sealer all over it and paint one of her Christmas scenes on it. I will have to give it a good think and decide just what and will post when I get started. I will be using her paint line, of course.<br />
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The little guy you see there at the bottom is called a "Humbug" lol...isn't he just miserable? I am painting a bunch of those for a little craft show I am doing in December. <br />
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Ok, back to work and I will be getting back when I start, stay tuned. Remember my other blogs, where I post dolls and quilts. The link is on the left.Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-34244112283270742542011-10-25T18:35:00.000-04:002011-10-25T18:35:20.826-04:00Wall Angle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2oUnJ37fWgxE1W0ZUuqXYmWccnpfhEwUeb7PTODCFGCimpSw2LePubh8VWg3wEnrrGcpqoW-bLMVSk9rmugYQj6zCu9NGh71paHm-8Z1yLazq67YPFR6mmJnm72-wsO2-pDNpOQ/s1600/wall+angel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2oUnJ37fWgxE1W0ZUuqXYmWccnpfhEwUeb7PTODCFGCimpSw2LePubh8VWg3wEnrrGcpqoW-bLMVSk9rmugYQj6zCu9NGh71paHm-8Z1yLazq67YPFR6mmJnm72-wsO2-pDNpOQ/s320/wall+angel.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f2f0c6; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> I haven't posted to this blog for ages. Anyway, I got in the mood to paint and I thought I would do a little demo for those interested, who would like to see how to do some of this Folk Art, as its not that hard at all, and also tell you a bit about this Prolific Artist who died many years ago<br />
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This angel may look complicated but she is not hard if you know a little stroke work. There are books on the market that can teach you that. I would recommend, "Jackie Shaw" books, for beginners, for the basics.<br />
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Folk Art or Decorative Painting consists of basecoat, highlight, shading and strokework.<br />
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I have many many wood cut outs from my painting and show days. This is one of them.<br />
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The pattern I will be using is one by Joyce Howard which is very rare and hard to find. Joyce published 6 books in her liftime, one of them a quilting book with painted blocks and I think that will be my very next project. I have wanted to do that for years.<br />
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Joyce also published very few patterns. A dickens series ( I found a set in Washington many years ago at a close-out). The only other Patterns would be ones in the posession of students of Joyce. I was not one of the fortunate ones to take classes from her as I hadn't started to paint then. I am fortunate to have friends who have shared with me tho. I have bought and begged and borrowed for years. I now own all six of her books and a few of her patterns and I am finally happy lol.<br />
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This angel is just called, Wall Angel and measures 18.5 X 15 or so.<br />
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To begin, the wood piece must be sealed and then basecoated with acrylic paints and I am using Decoart Americana paint. I basecoat, let dry and lightly sanded and basecoated two more coats and let cure 24 hours.<br />
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The pattern must be traced onto tracing paper (transparent) and then positioned on the wood piece and taped at the top in just a couple spots, graphite is slipped under the traced pattern and only the main areas traced and blocked in with colors as per instruction.<br />
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As I block the entire angle in I will put a pic up and so on..the picture above is the Pattern Picture. </span><br />
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For the strokework pattern, I just trace lines for directions of the strokes and the brush and paint does the strokework. Most of the florals are also strokwork, where the brush is loaded with a couple colors and applied. I will post as I go along and try to show some of it.</div><div><br />
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</div><div>I just notice that I didn't put the white flower centers in lol. </div>Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-62770819783968655572011-05-07T23:14:00.000-04:002011-05-07T23:14:11.495-04:00Necklace Mania, The Wedding Cake NecklaceAhhhhh a change of pace and something different. I am posting this quickly as I want to go bead some more. The pics are not so good as I took them at night inside but will post more later<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOoT6eZ3y74kATeVYELbEKnNow1lnofBH1m9qtEDVy0mJLNe9d1tjKfRvAAkwkeHdNDEplIxKT0FaVeVzs24OxQrrBb58v7IB8LTNhkqNBR8sDkUprt44oIImSh2O76DQrltlPCA/s1600/DSC00006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOoT6eZ3y74kATeVYELbEKnNow1lnofBH1m9qtEDVy0mJLNe9d1tjKfRvAAkwkeHdNDEplIxKT0FaVeVzs24OxQrrBb58v7IB8LTNhkqNBR8sDkUprt44oIImSh2O76DQrltlPCA/s320/DSC00006.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div>I have the Queen of Necklace Design, here with me, Marylyn Doyle from Arizona. We went to the hugh Gem show a week ago and bought lots of beads etc. This is a necklace she made for me. The earings, I made. The beads used are, semi-precious, fancy glass, Trade beads, Venetian beads etc. <br />
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A word about Trade beads. You can google them and find more than I can tell you here. <br />
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I made the necklace above. This one has a red Venetian, Meliflori heart, peppermint jasper, spottes jasper, fired glass and so on....I made all the earings. <br />
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Here are all three of them.<br />
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Some more beads. Ok, back to more fun.....Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-5761095267724901762011-04-13T19:02:00.000-04:002011-04-13T19:02:25.045-04:00TURTLE PINCUSHIONS CONTINUEDAs promised, here is Fred. I don't know why they look masculine to me, even tho I beaded them some lol.<br />
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I tweaked the pattern some more and I think I like his house, not sure yet. I might make it a bit bigger. I like the tail and everything else. I might make do another version with a shorter house to see if I like that.<br />
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I did some beading all around him here and there. You can still use him as a pincushion.<br />
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I am so enjoying the pincushion craze that has been going on, on the web. I decided to jump and try a few of my own too. Here is a little cutie that I made out of scraps. These are making me smile and I hope they make you smile as well. As long as it's an animal etc, it's always adorable....<br />
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I made this fat little bugger first after three or four trials and errors. His house seems to be a bit small for him hahahah....anyway,<br />
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I wanted a realistic face and I think I captured the turtle face pretty good. I made his shell and body as one piece and then made the cover for the shell seperate. I took a T-pin with a round loop and forced a huge plastic pearl on it and then wired some seed beads in the loop of the pin.<br />
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He is definately a snapping turtle with his mean look lol. I rouged his cheeks with crayon and outlined his mouth with a black Identi-pen, two black/green seed beads for his eyes. In this model I made a seam on the bottom and it raised his head and I like that.<br />
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I think I want his tail a big longer for the next model. <br />
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The next model: Then I decided to make another one with the shell not included with the body to see if I liked it better. I used the fabric from a little embroidered dress for the body. I then made the shell seperate.<br />
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The shell is just stuffed a bit and pinned on the turtle so far. <br />
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I adjusted this pattern for a longer tail and tried to make the beak longer. I rounded the head a bit more on this one. I still need to adjust the shell, it is still a work in progress.<br />
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I didn't put a seam down the bottom like the first one and his head is therefore lower. I like the higher head better.<br />
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Here is a pic of the mess made when trying to design your desire lol.<br />
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Here is one pic of Hazel...the others are at the doll blol. <br />
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This is Autumn<br />
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Close-up of her jewelry, made with glass beads, semi precious (japanese turquoise) and Swarovski crystals. <br />
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This is Nightshade<br />
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She is made the same as Autumn, only darker and also bejeweled, she has more turquoise lol. <br />
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Close-up of jewelry.<br />
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Here they are together. I love that I can pose them anyway I want. <br />
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More poses..<br />
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I used eyelash yarn for the hair. I just knitted a patch and sew it on. I sewed beads here and there on the clothing and painted the faces with fabric paint and glittered them.<br />
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I painted the faces with Decoart American SoSoft fabric paint. I also used the Shimmering Pearl and the Metallic lines as well. Painting your doll faces make them so much more realistic and natural looking. The paints blends very easily and even a beginner can do it. If you live in Orlando Florida, I will be teaching this doll at the Sewing Studio. I will teach you how to paint a doll face....write to me if you have any questions.Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-10964213420253868902011-01-24T15:51:00.001-05:002011-01-24T15:54:46.156-05:00LOG CABIN DIAMOND STAR QUILTThis is the last step for the CLCS. I quilted it yesterday and instead of binding it with a seperate binding, I left a 1 1/2 inch of batting and backing all around the quilt.<br />
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I then mitered the corners by folding the two ends at the corner, on the wrong side, together and sewed a seam down leaving a 1/4 inch for the turning under.<br />
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I then folded that exta binding to the right of the quilt and turned under 1/4 inch and proceeded to sew it down on the right side. When I got to the corners, they were already mitered, so all I had to do was turn under the 1/4 inch, I had left free.<br />
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You can't tell that the binding is a self binding unless you turn it over.<br />
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This is a total scrap quilt, using only lights and darks but one theme (Christmas fabric). I love all the effects. I see the star, boxes, baby blocks and buildings.<br />
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The strip on top is a crazy patch I add later to make the quilt longer, using all the left over scraps. <br />
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One could have make the plain blocks also striped like the rest of the quilt blocks, but one was getting sick of it and wanted to move on to something else lol, and the plain blocks look just as nice. <br />
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Since this was a custom quilt, some things had to be custom cut. Looking at the quilt, you can see that when the star is finished, you need to fill some spaces in with half diamonds and that was easy. Just cut a plain diamond in half and leave 1/4 inch seam allowance before cutting.<br />
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I found some nice Christmasy rose fabric for the back.<br />
For the four ends, I layed the quilt corner on the cutting board, lined up the top and the side and made a paper pattern of that area and added the 1/4 seam and cut that from fabric.<br />
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I am happy to report that I have put a good 12 to 15 yard dent in my stash lol.Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-54597985396766683732011-01-11T14:57:00.000-05:002011-01-11T14:57:35.765-05:00LOG CABIN DIAMOND STAR QUILTThe quilt fits a single bed nicely but needs just a bit more to tuck the pillows. <br />
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I worked on the extention. I had some strips left over and quite a lot of odd pieces, there was a basket full of them and so, not wanting to waste, I decided on S&C (scraps and crumps. <br />
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I started working on some areas. I say areas because I dont' want blocks, I want the extention to kinda melt together as one piece. <br />
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After I had sort of a beginning on three different pieces, and a couple small ones. I started to built on them. I decide on 17 wide by 86 long, the width of the quilt. This piece will look nice on the pillow.<br />
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I feel great about using all the left over scraps. This will take a nice chunk out of my Christmas fabrics, after the backing etc, I will have to take a look and see what is left now.....I might have to do another.<br />
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Somehow I flung the top around to sew one side and thought I saw a flash of light and low and behold the quilt was on fire. <br />
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Here it is all fixed. <br />
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The top is all squared up and ready for quilting.<br />
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I love seeing more than one thing in a quilt. I love the box look and then the star and who know what else one can find when it is finally finished. <br />
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I might make a tutorial.Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-85779657814923471672011-01-05T13:49:00.000-05:002011-01-05T13:49:38.783-05:00Pumpkin Seeds and Pumkin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZgyUNP-WeqU-EFApdvSqlsxlvf6tBnVOJyPvxnXRn6meS2mN7GfS8hriexMRylOolRpUGp6RK2DlP7rYqPHwCBvcjIbV-U5mGL2rb8gvt1dUhVV0fkomTeR7VNKmcpejqRNu3A/s1600/DSC00007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZgyUNP-WeqU-EFApdvSqlsxlvf6tBnVOJyPvxnXRn6meS2mN7GfS8hriexMRylOolRpUGp6RK2DlP7rYqPHwCBvcjIbV-U5mGL2rb8gvt1dUhVV0fkomTeR7VNKmcpejqRNu3A/s320/DSC00007.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>My neighbor gave me two pumpkins the other day. I decided they must be dried up but the seeds would still be good. Sure enough they were. Where I grew up, we always had fresh pumpkin seeds to eat.<br />
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The seeds, however, came with their own superstition. They were actually called Macobi Seeds and those who were love sick or their lover left them, they would be eating these seeds. They were said to have Macobi. They were also called pepitos for those who were just eating them to eat them. <br />
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When one would eat these seeds, one would be quick to say, "I don't have Macobi" lol. I am just eating them.<br />
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I don't know what effect these seeds were supposed to have on love sickness. Imagine the seed itself, it may have some properties that was good for the feel good hormone " Serotonin". I would see people eat a whole bag full and say they felt much better lol. <br />
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How I made the pepitos: I washed and drained them and them put them on towels to dry. I then put them on a cookie sheet and all spread out and baked them for ten minutes on 350 to dry some more. I then removed them, sprinkled some olive oil (tiny amount ) and some sea salt and stirred them good and put them in for another ten min. I would stir them again and check to see if they were done. I think it took 20 to 30 min, depending on your oven.<br />
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To crack the peppitos (I am assuming that you don't have Macobi lol) put the seed between you teeth on the sharp end of the seed and bite down just a little and the seed will pop open and you can just pull the seed out with you teeth, it's all in the learning lol. <br />
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The pumpkins, were also good so I put those in a pan with a rack with water and steam baked them for pies and cakes at a later time. Here is one all done and scoped out. <br />
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Another view....<br />
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ok blogger won't let me upload anymore pics. I will try again later or from the other computer.Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-27990007990102923352010-10-30T21:40:00.001-04:002010-10-30T21:40:52.743-04:00Checking InJust checking in to let you know I am still here. I have been extreamely busy. I have lots more new stuff to post both on the this site and the doll site. I will try to do that by early next week.Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-9594563924636903662010-10-01T00:26:00.001-04:002010-10-01T00:28:09.889-04:00Mindless FinishedAll done with the black, one inch borders on. I enjoyed making this scrap quilt a lot. I see different scenes in it that were totally unplanned, except for the dog and the houses. <br />
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The white comes forward and the black on each side of the track, make it recede so you can see a little depth. Then the section behind the white strip looks like a little town lol....one never knows what will come out of the S&C.<br />
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A friend sent me this link. I thought it so very sweet and the song by Demis Roussoss is just beautiful. <br />
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I love my scraps and crumps, as you all know from the mindless stuff I post lol. Crumps, being a word I learned on a Quilt Board lol. I assumed the crumbs were the tiny bits that you couldn't call a scrap and which I don't throw away anymore.<br />
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One of my darling friends, knowing of my fetish, dumped some of her scraps and crumbs here. I keep the scraps from different friends seperated, as their stuff is unique to them. I can look at one of my scrap quilts and know exactly who is in them...yes, sometimes I do add and combine but mostly it is from the one person about 75%.<br />
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Because of certain circumstances, I have the need to do mindless right now, so all other started projects, that require some thought, are on hold. It is nothing too serious, just some things that happen and are normal.<br />
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So here I am with my S & C (scraps and Crumps). I sewed into the wee hours of the morning as I could not sleep and was feeling quite energetic and excited at the prospect of creating something from nothing.<br />
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This is what I started with. <br />
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I knew my brain, given a chance, would kick in eventually as it knows what I like. It is a funny thing, you know?<br />
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I started to sew all the HST together, all sizes. Then I sewed a long string of strips and they were going every which way but the mind was saying, " keep going". The strips was long and curving and etc.<br />
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I started this block and left it at that, as the brain wanted to do something else with another block. Then that was left and another started.<br />
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These are not finished by any means. I don't want a block to block look. I want it to flow together as a whole, so I have to do a connection somewhere.<br />
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I put the three together and I can see, where there is an outside strip, it gives the block appearance. I turned the top two with no strips on that side and I can see the look I like. I love the black intersperced here and there. <br />
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I now think I should put a cat and dog and a house in. I got some neat blocks out of the "Sew Precise" software.<br />
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The two blocks on the top, show the striped pieces of the long string that I did. I filled in the curve at the dip and left the round part alone and then I cut the whole strip straight. I just add and square up as I go but love the crooked things inside. <br />
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I have finished four pieces so far and there's not much of the S & C left from this donation, lol, but I have more from another friend more or less the same taste in fabric. <br />
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I am calling them pieces because I don't want a block look. Here is how I started the fourth part and then the bottom half...it's sew as you go. <br />
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I have made stairways or ladders and when I do the next one it will be better. The more I do these the more I learn.<br />
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I even managed a house lol. These are the four areas now. I won't sew them together yet.<br />
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Here are four pieces together, so far.<br />
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I am working on a long part going down one side of the four pieces and have more than half done. Notice my little doggie with the kerchief?<br />
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Then I just took a ladder and placed it in the bottom space and will work from there.<br />
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</div>Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-43272688808263073372010-09-13T11:09:00.000-04:002010-09-13T11:09:37.156-04:00Teddy and the T-Shirt scraps.I thought this was so cute I had to share. I am in the process of making a T-shirt quilt for someone. I started to cut the fronts out and would throw the rest of it on the floor. <br />
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My little Shih-tzu, Teddy (he is 12 1/2) was watching deligently. As soon as a scrap would fall, he would grap it and stuff it under his tummy (mine, mine). Eventually the heap got a bit big. He then proceeds to jump up and down on it, throwing them in the air and then plunks himself down on top and went to sleep lol. <br />
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I found 20 blocks, 12 inches square. I also found about twenty four, 5 inch blocks from the time that I thought I was going to make the Dear Jane quilt...well so much for that and 5 or so years later lol.<br />
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Here is the collection of Dear Jane's. <br />
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I played with them and put one of the bigger blocks that I found and surrounded it with the DJ's<br />
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Here is a close up of how it's made.<br />
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Here is the quilt finished with all the blocks I found. I still four left over but those can be thrown in with another quilt I have in mind with some other little block from another project that I stopped lol.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love it. It measures 59x71. I might add a border and make it a wee bigger. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have also started <a href="http://dollsquiltsetc.blogspot.com/">Mrs Farmer</a> at my other blog.</div>Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-3680553442792884132010-08-21T19:16:00.001-04:002010-08-21T20:12:13.476-04:00Underground Railroad, all doneI have finished the quilt finally. It turned out to be 85x103, more or less. I used all joined plaid for the backing. I am not buying any fabric for a long time, so I am using what I have, besides I like a patchy backing, makes it cozy. I also used two different plaids for the binding which is about one inch wide.<br />
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All that is left to do now, is the sashings and the corner stones and then on to the quilting. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Trace all the bird parts onto very light interfacing (iron on type). Place right side of fabric to the glue side of the interfacing. Sew on line and cut out leaving an 1/8 inch seam allowance. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Turning the birds. I used finger turning tools from my doll kit. Cut the interfacing down the middle but not all the way to the points of the birds. Place tube inside and poke the corresponding tube down into the other tube and press on the fabric side until it enters the tube, then just turn it out. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here you see the hollow tube going up and the solid tube going down into it, poking the fabric in. Just doing the points, the rest is easy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here you can see them turned and pinned. Now I will steam press the birds onto the block and the glue side of the interfacing will stick in place. Then I topstitch all around the birds. Start in middle not at the point. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The one on the left. "Underground Railroad", a block to recall the network of help.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Three rows. I change them around, once I finished them. I have 8 block to go to finish this quilt. </div>Rosyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11499784554648104100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101905.post-11363632228295006792010-08-13T13:59:00.001-04:002010-08-13T14:10:13.940-04:00Underground RailroadMore Blocks. <br />
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North star and Aunt Dianah. I only managed half of the North Star. Aunt Dianah, a block to recall Americanization. North Star, A block to recall Abolition Fairs. <br />
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